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When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.
Annie Lennox
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Annie Lennox
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
Hiv Activist
Music Video Director
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Singer-Songwriter
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Aiberdeen
Ann Lennox
Ann Griselda Lennox
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Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
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I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.
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My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.
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Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.
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Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.
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If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting HIV are about 40%. So it's about the difference between 40% and zero. This is almost totally preventable. But it requires mothers coming for care and getting the medicines they need, and getting the education and support they need.
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In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that.
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The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.
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I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
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I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.
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I'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life.
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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.
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I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.
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Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.
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You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again.
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I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
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Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?
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If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '
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I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.
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